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It was reported in London yesterday that the American Minister had made a demand on Lord Clarendon, the British Foreign Secretary, asking for explanations regarding the case of the American Ship Mary Lowell, which was captured by the Spamards off the Bahama Islands while in charge of @ British revenue oficial Much excitement was createa by the news, which, it is thought, in connec- tion with other matiers, will seriously affect the Bpanish loan about being put on the Eng- lish market. The bil regulating Irish leases has passed a second reading in the Hous» of Commons. The Spanish Finance Minister presented the an- Dual budget to the Cortes on Monday. He proposes gtadually to reduce prohibitory duties and abolish the salt and tobacco monopolies; recommends the floating debt be fixed at 600,000,000 reals; and estimates the receipts of the present year at 2,000,000,000 reais, The miners’ strike at Mons, Belgium, has ter- minated, The men have gone peaceably to work at B slight advance, A reduction of the present raves of duty on brandy exported to the United States was suggested and urged in the Frenoh Corps Legistatif on Monday, ‘The meeting of the council of the North German Zoliverein is convoked for the 28th inst. Prince Hoheniohe, Bavarian Prime Minister, ina Speech in the Chambers yesterday, stigmatized the late oncyciical letter of the Pope as contrary to the Spirit of the age. Ovba, Secretary Fish yesterday was called upon by Sefior Roberts, the Spanish Minister, who demanded that a proclamation discouraging fillbustering expeditions from sailing to Cuba should ve issued by the President. The Secretary promptly de- clined todo anything of the sort, and said that as there was a revolutionary organization in arms in Cuba, formed by the native Onbans under their own Provisional government, he could see no good reason to hinder the departure of any persons from ‘this country who may choose to take wp arms in their service. Minister xoberts, it is said, withdrew very much surprised and afterwards submitted the #ame demand in writing. In regard to the Mary Lowell affair Secretary Fish has concluded that the Britian government ts Hable to us for permitting her to be captured in British waters, and he has therefore made representations to that effect to the British Minister. As for the Lizzie Majors, however, several days ago he de- manded full reparation and indemnity from the Spanish government through Seior Roberts, who conceded the justness of the claims and guaran- teod that Spain would make satisfactory repa- ration. He promised to Jay the matter be- fore his home government immediately, but yesterday he informed the Secretary wnat he had Not heard from the government smee. The becre- tary then diplomatically informed him thas war Would ensue if an answer was not forthcoming shortly, ‘rhe Secretary also told Minister Roberts that General Duice's proclamation declaring that all vee- eels found in Cuban waters with arms on board shall be treated as pirates must be disavowed, ‘Whereupon the Minister, by direction of his home @overnment, promptly disavowed i. The tron-clad feet now fittiug out, Me. Fish told Minister Roberts, is intended for Cuban waters, By the Cuban cable we jearn that the insurgents fre reported closely besiezing Trinidad, and ali com- munication with the town on the land side is aaid to be cutoit. The rebels continue to burn plantations, A Nassau steamer has landed arms and ammuaition fur the insurgents at Puerto Sama, Porngany, Tppes remains undisturved io his mountain fest NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1869—QUADRUPLE SHEET. Mr. Chandler on the Alabama Claims. | far exceed anything of a like character held ness and is rapidly filling nis ranks. All that he wants is time, which the allies are allowing him, The latter have in all about 20,000 troops, The Argentine republic had not yet sent an envoy to assist in furming @ provisional govern- ment for Paraguay, and it is believed that Varela is at Asuncion merely to make'a private report on the expediency of the movement to President Sarmi- ento. No communication, oMectal or private, has deen received from Minister McMahon, but no ap- prehension is feit about his safety, By Atlantic cable we learn that the Paraguayans had made several successful raids into the territory occupied by the allies, The prisoners of war re- leased at Angostura had rejoined Lopez. Brazil. Admiral Iguacio, who commanded the Brazilian naval squadron, is dead. He was known better on account of his political services than for his war record. The Treasury report for the three months ending with.February shows the aggregate liabili- ties at that time to be $332,300,000, The rainy season has set in with such force in the Northern provinces that great floods have prevailed and the crops have been most seriously damaged. Mexico. Advices by way of San Franoisco state that Pala- cio's attempt at revolution in Sinaioa had failed, The garrison at Colima was overcome and Palacio attempted to force a loan of $20,000, but having suc- ceeded in obtaining only $1,600, he disappeared, and it 1s believed that he has gone to Tepic to obtain assistance from Lozada, The gold diggings near Mazatlan are attracting great crowds and are re- ported as very rich. The Senato. Mr. Ross, of Kansas, in the open seasion yesterday made 4 personal explanation, in which he stated that the bitterness of the recent conversation be- tween himself and the Presideat was somewhat ex- aggerated in the HERALD accounts. He took the same occasion, however, to denounce the removal of Andy Johnson's office holders, as he was reported to have aone in the conversation referred to, and to say that he would not blindly or subserviently sup- port the administration in future. The question of adjournment came up and the resolution to adjourn sine die on Thursday was passed. In executive session a long list of nomi- nations was confirmed and the San Juan treaty was discussed, without, however, coming to any final action. In the lst of nominations received from tho Prest- dent, which was the last official batch of the ses- sion, were Thomas McElrath, Appraiser at New York, and James Kelly, Postmaster at New York, ‘The Legislature. The New York Tax Levy bill was considered in the State Senate yesterday, and, after some amend- ments had been made, was ordered to a third read- ing. A message was received from the Governor vetoing the bill for the extension of Avenue C Rail- road. The bill to increase the salaries of oficers of the Metropolitan Fire Department was reported ad- versely, a3 were also the bilis to prevent the slaugh- ter of cattle south of Eighty-sixth etree. and to in- crease the compensation of doormen of the Metro- politan police. In the Assembly bills were passed relative to the Waliabout Improvement of Brooklyn; to erect the mew county of Nassau from parts «of Suffolk and Queens counties (77 to 11); to amend the banking laws; relative to the purchase of real estate by Surro- gate's orders; to amend the Croton Water Aqueduct act and some others of minor importance. The bill lassifyiog the directors of the Hudson, Harlem and Erie railroads was taken up for a third reading and after discussion was laid on the table. At the afternoon session the Speaker presented the annual report of the State Agricultural Society. Bilis were ordered to a third reading relative to illuminating gas in the city of New York; donating to the Aneri- can Museum of Natural History specimens belong- ing to the State; providing for additional notaries: public and several others, Miscellaneous, Advices from Montreal, Guelph and other towns in Upper Canada state that the country ts inundated owing to heavy rains and the sudden breaking up of the ice. Considerable damage to culverts, mill- dams, roads and other property has been done, and much-distress is anticipated. A terrific tornado visiied St. Louis, Dubuaue, Indianapolis and other Western towns on Monday. A freight depot was blown down tn Iedianapolis, several houses were unroofed and several persons seriousiy iajured. In St, Louia the loss is estimated at $100,000, The Kentuck and Crown Point mines have been explored for a shor! distance, and the actual Gam- age to property by the fire will probably be very slight. The water has risen nearly to the 500 feet level, and several days’ pumping will be required to render it dry. Among the clerks newly appointed in the Third Aaditor's office to succeed the namber recently dis- charged are two colored men—Robert Kk. Douzias, son of Fred Dougias, and James E. C, Hare, formerly clerk in the North Carolina Constituuonal Conven- tion. ‘The Butier-Kimberly case {s being argued before Chief Justice Chase in the United States Circuit Court in Baltimore. The question of a Congcessman’s im- munity from arrest is the principal point under dis- cussion, Among a large crowd of visitors who paid their respects to President Grant yesterday was Mr. Robert Lincola. The City. The Nattonal Executive Committee of the Union League of America will meet at the St. Nichelas Hotel in this city on Friday of next week. Justice Dowling commenced yosterday at the Tombs an examination in the case of the late for- geiles upon Jay Cooke & Co,, by which $20,000 was obtained from the National Bank of the State of New York. Affidavits were submilted by the assi tant cashior of Jay Cooke & Co., and the paying telier of the bank, dectaring the cnecks to be forgeries. The Judge promises to lift the vell of mystery with wich this case thus far has been shrouded, and as far as lays in his power deveiopf ail the facts connected with it, The mails for the Cunard steamship Java, for Liverpool, will close at the Post Oiice at balf-past elevon A. M. to-day. The steamship Saragossa, Captain Ryder, will leave pier No. 6 North river at three I’, M. to-day for Chgrieston. ‘ne stock market yesterday was heavy at the morning board, but reacte closed buo,ant and strong. Money on call was quotea at six to seven per cont, Governments “were lower, but quivt. Gotd was again excited and twice fluctuated be- tween the extremes of 133% and 154%, closing finatiy at 134%. Prominent Arrivais in the Cliy. Professor B. Stiliman, of New Haven; J. C. Abpott, of Boston, and J. B. McCartney, of Wasnington, are at the Filth Avenuo Hotel. Couone: J, Mol. Hilt, of the United States Army; M. B. Perry, of Albany, und Hf. T. De Seweil, of Phita- deiphia, are at the Hoff.nan House, Captain H. FP. Connor, of the steamer Henry Chauncey; Nathaniet McKay, of Boston, and B.D. Chapin, Of Springtielé, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. Captain W. H. Fitch and Captain 8. A. Humphrey, of the United States Army, are at tie St. Charies Hotel. . J. BE, Hulbert, of Oneida county; F. D. Page, of Binghamton, aod Acbile Andris, of Belgium, are at the Maithy House, Captain B. Gardner, of the British army, and Captain ©. Manigault Morris, of Georgia, are at the New York Hotel. Mr. Bacque Bey, Turkish Minister, is at the Brevoort House. Prominont Departures. Colonel J, Taylor Wood \oit yesterday for Nova Scotia; W. Paige, for Washington; 0. R. Miller, sor Philadelphia; W. ». Lathrop, for Boston, and 4. C, Hunting, for Hartford. A Missionary WantEp,—A Southern paper recommends a Northern contemporary to take the “bean” out of- its own eye, &. Tho mat- ter is passed over to the consideration of the Beverly papers. Our Representatives Abroad. Rumors reach us that the Spanish Cortes can find no better employment than to sift the dirty transactions of our Minister (Hale) and his secretary (Perry). It is reported that the Foreign Office of Spain will prefer charges to the effect that the former individual has smuggled into the country sufficient carpeting to cover the floors of the Alhambra, the Royal Palace and the Escurial—perhaps two hun- dred thousand yards in all, Also that both | representatives have carried on an extensive silk trade by the bale—that since the arrival of Mr. Hale both he and Mr. Perry have de- franded the government of large sums of money by smuggling operations, We cannot see what there ia in all this that should induce the Spaniards to make such @ fuss, We did not send Minister Hale abroad for diplomatic purposes, We rarely commission a minister or a consul to a foreign country for any other reason than to got rid of him. Having done our dirty work, he becomes a bore to us, and especially to the Senators and Representatives who have made use of him. As for Mr. Perry, he has been in Spain so long that he cannot be blamed for anything that sticks to his fingers, much less for any double dealing that proceeds from his brain. It isa pity that a man who knows more about gun contracts and fine laces in Belgium should be allowed to spoil this well established diplomatic carpet and silk trade at Madrid. But then the Senate must be represented, and whether it be by Mr. Hale or Mr. Sanford makes but little difference. Able men abroad might get so far in advance of our illi- terate Congress as to seriously disturb our foreign relations and place them beyond the ken of American legislation, ‘‘Have no man abroad who dares to be more than a clerk.” This was Mr, Seward’s motto, and how well he clung to it let the wrecked condition of our foreign relations show. During his adminis- tration United States ministers and consuls were frequently carried through the public streets drunk to their residences. Fow American gentlemen travelling abroad sought their society, and only tolerated their con- tact because they deemed the United States flag great enough to cover diplomatic igno- rance and ill-breeding in fts folds, With the new government just in power we hoped that this condition of things would be changed. There are indications, however, of a retro- grade instead of a progressive movement. The nominations for various foreign positions have shown a perfect carelessness about our method of commercial and political contact with other nations, How dead, indeed, the Senate is to this subject is best showa by our Washington correspondence of yesterday. Speaking of the Brazil mission it says:—‘‘Mr, Srmner is anxious to report favorably upon Pile, not that he thinks him at all fit for the place, but just to oblige his friend, Senator Schurz, of Missouri, by whom Piie is pressed.” We have heretofore held the apparently erroneous im- pression that Senators were elected to legisinte for the good of the country, not for the purpose of accommodating their colleagues, It will be @ matter of interest to know how Brazil will look upon this appointment. ‘There is but one reason for her not to murmur at it, and that is the sense of relief she will feel whea the present trader in old ships is removed from her court. Waile we are looking southward we may mention the appointmeat of R. C. Kirk to the Argentine Republic. We apologize to that people for sending him, Tae last time he was there it is reported that he did a very driving trade, Perhaps, however, even he is preferable to a deceased appointee of Mr. Seward, who was obliged to employ a resident English clergyman to write his despatches for him to our State Department. We are a nation—that is, we pretend to be— of broad views. We boast of the splendid geographical position which we occupy, of facing Europe, Asia and South Amorica; and yet nations of loss pretensions, but better sense, pass our doors, and, by a well managed diplomatic system, bind other countries to them, open close commercial relations and absorb their trade, We are like » Mexican who sits lazily in the sunshine and boasts of the wealth of his silver mines while be shapes laws to keep their riches undoveloped, But the evil rans from bad to worse; the indica- tions now are that we are to go through another four years which shall bo a fit sequol to the last eight. All over the world our diplomatic and consular corps may continuo to do a driv- ing business in defrauding the revenues of the countries to which they may be accredited, They may reprosent us as ignorantly even as many of our Consressmen would represent us were they occupying foreign positions, The nation can bear it with all humility. Europe, Asia and South Amerioa may take us at our own estimate of ourselves, We can- not complain, What we may complain of, however, is that we havo a Senate which fixes that estimate; a Sonate that gives itself entirely to personal, not to national, inte- rests; a Senate whose members alone think of perpetuating the loase of power which they have absorbed from Executive and judiciary ; ® Senate whose standard is ignorance and egotism; a Senate whose members boldly share in the vast schemes of plunder which have followed onr war, We complain of this, and we complaia that the representatives of the United S.ates in foreign countries repro- sent our Senate, not our poople, We there- fore hold the Senate responsible for all this national degradaion, There was a time when the government, untouched in the purity of its original organisation, sent such men abroad as did the people credit, Gradually, as the power has centred in the Senate, ministers and consuls have grown of lighter calibre in every- thing that makes a man, To-day the list of foreiga appointments, with but few exceptions, may be characterized as the worst we have yet known, Tie Albany Argus calls the Seoretary of the Navy « ‘tremendous old salt.” That's rather highly seas-on-'d, Barty Ristva as Conxroren witn Ratt- ROAD Jons.—A paper called The Sunrise ba published way down East, and is noted for its connection with legislative railroad jobs, It re- quires an early riser to make headway on that sort of jobs anywhere, and some of the earliest are apt to miss the train. Even some who ait up all night and only rise from their ma- hogany when the wine is out fail to make oon- | The prospects for the coming mooting are | nections with inside railroad rings, At the present stage of our negotiations with England on the Alabama olaims we onght not to be little and weaken our own case by conduct wanting in national dignity or by such extremo assertion of our own view as must at once close discussion by | foreing it beyond the rational limit. Such an | utterance as that of Mr. Chandler on his reso- lution in regard to Canada damages our case, so far as it has any effect whatever, and if his resolution were acted upon it could have no other result than to forfeit the very strong round we now hold in our difference with England, If Mr. Chandler was talking for Michigan we must regret that he chose this very important subject at » time when every word spoken in our Senate may be scrutinized for the indications of our temper; for certainly it would not be creditable to us to have it sup- posed that we entered in this spirit upon a grave question of national right and honor. Bullies and vaporers have no man’s respect, and it is a weak case that has to be sustained with threats. Our position among the na- tions and our demonstrated power are such that no nation can put us off with a joke unless we begin the joking. England cannot refuse to hear and heed with due respect our statement of grievances unless we put that statement in such a shape that a common sense of courtesy and right the world over will justify her in refusing to listen to it. And this we do if we open the case with a threat that her territory shall not be safe so long as she refuses to accept our conclusion. Our case might have boen very well left to go to the common sense of England on Mr. Sum- ner’s statement of it; but our opponents on the other side the water may well use Mr. Chandler's ridiculous clamor to show that we are a people with whom it is in vain to reason. Quarantine SMuGeLine.—We learn that the new Oollector is perfecting arrangements to put the Quarantine establishmont under sur- veillance during the coming summer, in order to stop the system of smuggling that has here- tofore been carried on in that department under the cloak of regard for the public health. Wno Dozs Suz Betona To?—Kinnier, not agreeing with Mrs. Kinnier, got a divorce. Pomeroy then married Mrs, Kinnier, and ho now also desires to be rid of her, and asks for a decree of divorce on the ground that the former divorce was defective. Kinnier must watch Pomeroy’s svit with lively interest ; for if Pomeroy wins the woman is still Kinnier’s wife. Quaker Commissiosers.—We hope that the worthy old gentlemen who propose to settle our Indian diMiculties on Pean’s principles will not fall into the error of following the analogy too closely. Those Indians of the Plains are not much like the fellows Penn had to deal with. The Indians of the Atlantic slope had some elements of noble character in them. Not so these fellows, These are of a mean breed to begin with, and they are all the worse for an acquaintance through genera- tions with whiskey and white men, Opoxrs.—As a result of all the gas investi- gations before the Board of Health and else- whete, it is observed that the smells from the works of the Metropolitan Company are not any more agroeable than they were before. Rev. Srerugn H. Tyna axp His Arrzr- NATE.—From Mr. 'Tyng himself we have an estimate of his relative position in the hie- rarchy. He said of the meeting of the Pro- testant Associatioa that if he were not there “very likely the old boy would be.” Either Tyng or the devil, then, was sure to be thero; and if one was there the other might stay away. ReMemperep.—Mrs, Ann §. Stephens, reported to have been disagreeably active in Andy Johnson's part of the whiskey muddle, was remembered by the Senate in the person of her son. He being a candidate for a con- sulate was rejected by the Senate nem. con. Axorner Sree has been takon by tho women in their grand attempt to show that they are fully equal to the men, Thoy have organized a club, This proves their capacity, and we hope it may not damage their morals. They will have a cook, of course, but of what sex? “Tun Stekpimest MAN iN Tax Worry” is said, by a Montana paper, to exist in that region. He is more likely to be found in tho city of Washington at the head of one of the departments, Gesrrat Burige as Goversor or Massa- onuserts.—The Newburyport Jerald advo- cates the election of General Butler as Gover- nor of Massachusetts, declaring that “the State needs just such a man—a man of great execn- tive powers—to reconstract affairs at the State House.” Butler might make a very good Governor of the Bay State, but what will be- come of his bosom friend and agricultural factotum, Dr. Loring? PrrtapLe—The moans of the Boston repub- licans becaase Geaeral Grant thought tit to go to New Hampshire to find ® person to fill the snug berth of Naval Officer, Their sufferings must be harrowing. At any rate they uro occasioned by one Harriman, Reversat ‘or Hk Maxta.—In ordinary cases a man is held innocent until he is proved guilty. But the Massachusetts Legislature manages differently; it holds a man guilty until he proves his innocence, and claps him in prison, Ominovs.—Fisk, Jr., opened his grand monogramic Opera House with a shipwreok. Fiscal shipwrecks in Wall street have long strewn that ourbstone Rialto where speculators most do oongrogate, The American Jockey Club. The shadow of exclasivencss which has operated so prejudicially to the interests of the American Jockey Clab has at length boon dis- sipated, and tho public in future are to enjoy equal privileges on racing days with that body. The more liberal portion of tho club have at length gained the ascendanoy, and at thoir last «meeting adopted a resolution throwing open the grand stand to all who choso to pay for the privilege of admission. This is a stop in the right direction, and will greatly tend to popularize tho meetings of tho club in future, vory bright, and the probability is that it will en the same grounds. The berality of the American Jockey Club in thus throwing open the entire grand stand to the publio will induoe many to attend the races who would other- wise have stayed at home, their feeling against the former exclusiveness of the club having been so strong that they preferred remaining in town to subjecting themselves to what they deemed an ignominious position on a race course. Now that these restrictions are re- moved we may expect a full attendance at every meeting and less dissatisfaction ex- pressed at the doings of the club. Instead of the grand stand being only partially filled, as heretofore, it will henceforth be occupied by large additions of beauty and fashion from all parts of the country. Spanish Outrage and Spanish Finance. The course of policy and naval action which have lately been observed and pursued by the Spanish officers serving in the waters of Cuba and off the Bahamas have been fully reported in Europe, where the news is likely to produce a reaction seriously detrimental to the interests of the executive now endeavoring to consoli- date a government in Madrid, and may even- tuate in complicating England in the trans- atlantic irritation prevailing in consequence. By special telegram through the Atlantio cable, dated in London yesterday, we are in- formed that the United Siates Minister at St. James’, in accordance with instructions from Washington, had just had an audience of Lord Clarendon, Foreign Secretary, in the course of which he made a formal demand on his lordship for explanation relative to the case of the American ship Mary Lowell, captured by a Spanish war frigate off one of the islands of the Bahama group, at a moment when the trading vessel was completely in charge of a British revenue officer and with the seal of the Queen’s revenue department on her hatches. John Bull learned at the same time that the American fleet serving in the West India waters was to be increased—news which produced quite @ sensation in commercial ciroles—a feeling likely to affect the project of a new Spanish loan which is about to be placed on the Eng- lish market most injuriously. The Spaniards of to-day are unfortunate both in diplomacy and finance. Contemporaneous with our report from Lon- don we are informod from Washington that Secretary Fish has at length taken a strong position on the Cuban question, Seilor Roberts, who represents the Madrid Cabinot near our government, had two interviews with the Secretary yesterday,, when he was informed that the Union fleet in tho West India waters had been ordered to protect American citizens, and was requested to say if Captain General Dulco had proclaimed that vessels arriving off Cuba with men, arms, or ammunition on board should be treated as pirates. Sofior Roberts was unable to give a distinct reply, but said he had telegraphed to Madrid for explanations, whioh had not yet been received, and finally “‘caved in” in presence of the statement of our coming policy made by Mr. Fish, Living in the misty haze of tho history of a national power supported by military plunder from abroad, the people of Spain cannot come down to the actual realities of the nineteenth century, which disolose their weakness and reveal how effete the nation has become. The Cuban revolution is likely to demand the active interference of President Grant a¢ an early day, while this outrage on English commorce is almost certain to bring a British squadron off the island. The Spaniards cannot avoid their fate, All things are for the best. Let us ‘‘conquor a peace.” A SrasoyabLe Retiaion—Buddhism, Taw Heauru Ovricer.—Dr, Swinburne is at Albany lobbying against a bill to amend tha Quarantine laws so that the Board of Health may grant permits to board vessels as well as himself, Juvrerson’s Burripay.—Some of the sol- diers anc public mon seem to be in a fog about Jefferson's birthday. On the 13th in- stant a banquet was given by some Germans in the Bowery in honor of Jefferson's birthday ; and some of *the democratic orators who “done” English in Connecticut (inclading Thomas Dunn English) made tremendous speeches, Yesterday a Gorman regiment was reviewed in the Park in honor of Jefferson's birthday, and a banqact in like honor was given at the rooms appropriately situated over Centro Market. We must correct them, lest history suffer. Thomas Jefferson was born on the 2d of April, Old Style. To make new style, always add eleven days. Consequently Thomas Jefferson was born on the 13th of April, and not on the 12th or 19th, days which have been confusingly celebrated. But tho politicians and public men have so much for- gotten Jeffersonian doctrines and ways that it is no wonder they go astray on his birthday. Movine THe Carrrats.—It is proposed at Albany to remove the capital of the State to this city, and at Washington to make this city tie capital of the nation, Anciontly it was supposed that the political capital should not be ata great centre of the other kind of capital, lest it might lead to corruption. This is an objection that no one will raise just now, Then it was supposed that a capital should be near the centre, for the sake of common fa- cility of communication, and the railroad and telegraph has changed all that, Let the capi- tals come, No Powkr.—Apparently tho court martial finos lovied in our militia organizations have no better basis than the consent of the victim, Recently a victim refusing to pay carried his case to court, and the result was dismissal of the suit against him, Cartas Cavrney’s Case.—Hollis was brought into the station house, and the surgeon there requested to examine him found only a few cuts on his face, Next day another doctor treated him for a dislocation of the elbow, and on tho third day still another doctor for frac- ture of the arm. Perhaps all the doctors were right. Hollis had only outs on his face when taken in; but when the policemen who dragged him to his cell had “broken his hold” on the railing he probably had more, and likely had both @ fracture of the bone and a dislo~ cated joint. As these injuries led to his death tho investigation should be pursued. ——$$—$— $$ re ite a seats in the House of Lords in January, 1871. It seemed just and fair that the bishops should no longer sit in the House of Lords when the seats they ocoupied were no longer represen- tative. It appears, however, that principle has House of Commons, and that, too, majority which no bill has been able to claim for many long years. The real difficulty will not be encountered until the bill comes before the Lords. Government Losses By Smvootine.—It is estimated that the government lost last sum- mer through the operations of the Quarantine A Hearruy Movemesr in Tesnessrs.— Aocording to the Knoxville Whig a party of eight wealthy gentlemen from Maine recently left that place to ‘ prospect” among the mine- ral lands in the adjoining counties. There are large deposits of sulphur in that locality. Some may surmise that that is the reason why Parson Brownlow selected it as his place of residence. Be that as it may, we hope itis the intention of the Maine capitalists to de- velop the resources of the section, for that is the right way to “‘fire the Southern heart” nowadays. Tne Jay Cooke Forcxnrms.—We undor- stand that the reason of tho inaction in re- gard to these is that the bank began with a blunder. It paid the forged checks, and though there is now no doubt that they are forgeries the bank insists upon charging the money to the account of Jay Cooke & Co. This stops the latter house from prosecuting, lest it should thus admit some liability, while the bank stands still lest it should also com- mit itself, In the meantime one of the rogues is in custody and will in due timo come up on the regular criminal prosecution. A NovetCoupte.—The Goddess of Liberty andthe British Lion paraded our streets the other day in the same procession. The lion was quite tame, considering the company he was in; but that might have been owing to the fact that hoe was in charge of a n:tive keeper from afar off British India, A Biury Gamr.—A new paper, called the Bluff City Times, has just been started in Eufala, Alabama, In his salutatory the editor lays down the sound journalistic principle that “the publication of a newspaper is (or should be) a source of personal profit to its proprietor, and for this purpose published.” This is a hand in a favorite Southern game that ought to win, atcha A New Element of Education—Popular Loc. tures to Schools. Lectures have always been an important ele- ment of education in colleges and the higher class of schools, but have been neglected in the common echools and schools for boys and girls; yet the youngest minds are most sus- ceptible and more ready to receive instruction from lectures if the lecturer brings himself to the level of his hearers. No mode of impart ing instruction is so effective or popular. In fact, in the classic age of Greece, and of other countries famous for learning and art, this was among the philosophers and teachers the favorite mode of instructing youth, But, as we said, in modern times the younger class of studeats—the boys and girls—have not been tanght in this way. Mr, Paul B. Da Chailu, the famous African explorer, has commenced a retorm in this respect, After delivering a few lectures to schools in Brooklyn and other parts, at tho special invitation of school managers and teachers, and finding that they were successful and highly appreciated by the young folks, ho has resolved to follow up what he has begun, and to lecture to schools throughout the country, As a starting point he intends to commence in New York, at Stein- way Hall, during the present and coming weeks. The school commissioners, superin- tendents and teachers, as well as the managers of private schools, have expressed their ap- probation of the project and their purpose to encourage the distinguished traveller and leo turer. There will be a course of three after- noon lectures in this city oa the general sub- ject of Mr. Du Chaillu’s explorations and ad- ventures, The first, on Friday, April 23, will be specially devoted to’ the gorilla and other wild beasts of Equatorial Africa, with a de- scription of the lecturer's mode of travelling and adventures with the savages. Tho seo~ ond, on Tuesday, April 27, will be on the can- nibal tribes—how they live, their villages, Mr. Da Chaillu’s residence among them, with a description of the chimpanzee, the warrior ants and hunting adventures among wild beasts, snakes, antelopos, and so forth. The third and last will be on the dwarts in the in- terior of Africa, and their mode of lifo; on the remarkable white ants, or insect architects, and to conclude with a narrative of Mr. Da Chaillu’s retreat from Ashango Land and run- ning fight with the enraged savages, All will be illustrated by maps, diagrams and African ouriositics. These aro fruitful thomes for young minds, and, indeed, for grown people too, and will prove more interesting uyder the familiar, natural and impressive manner in which Mr, Du Chaillu treats them than the story of Robinson Crusoe or the most fascinating ro- mance, The peculiar charm about these leo- tures is In the fact that the narratives aro trae, novel and strange os thoy may appear, and that the lecturer himself is the hero of them all, Children will romomber and long talk